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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Cabeza de Vaca P005 – Ambient special

Head over to Scanner FM
for the
latest show which is an all ambient special! A few beats in some tracks, but
nothing worth locking up your daughters for, even if one of the artists is Xhin
who you might expect to lay it on heavy.

There will be
another ambient show in a couple of weeks, but I confess to lying accidentally
at the end of the show, when I say that next week will be back to beats. Looks
like a coup instead for the Spanish speaking contingent as I have an interview
with Christian Pascual, director of the Beefeater In-Edit International Festival of Music Documentaries, that was the
foundation of the previous show and will be now at the centre of the next one
with the interview at heart, but the beats will return.

Also, anyone
curious about listening on mobile devices, there will be a major overhaul of
Scanner FM in the near future and you will be most impressed with the new
direction, new programming and new flexibility, so stay tuned and be patient
for now.

For supplements,
here is a little film on Actress’s "R.I.P" album by Pierre Debusschere. The concept
of the album may be loosely John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”, but little mention is
given to the title with its two and not three points at the end of the letters.
My personal take on it would be that the “I” in the centre is meant to be read
as “I” or self and you are meant to place yourself into the story. Another
possibility is that the “I” is almost a mirror or a portal where one has “R”
and “P” on opposing sides, almost reflections of each other. I haven’t read
Milton as most of us haven’t, but maybe there are more clues there.

Mohn (the
project of Jörg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt) has also had several video treatments,
but none for the self-titled track I use in the show that closes the album.
This track falls just before it and its “negative view” of the world is somehow
metaphorical of ambient music and its absence of daily rhythms.

Finally, I
mention in the show the websites of ASC and Australian artist Kane Ikin, in
particular, and here are some nice mixes from the two. Check out their websites
though for much more and of course plenty of useful information to boot.